Gregory's Server
@republik_magazin writes about the Swiss secret service (they don’t call themselves that but it quacks like one) and how they surveil the Internet counter to promises made back when the law allowing them to do so was put to a vote (which they won). The following court proceedings showed that the secret service was overstepping those bounds and apparently the next step is to legalize it all, naturally.
https://www.republik.ch/2024/01/09/der-bund-ueberwacht-uns-alle
(Got that link via a newsletter by my Internet provider, Init7.)
The reason I picked Init7 as my Internet Service Provider is that they keep fighting the good fight. On their blog is the story of how the went to court against Swisscom, the telecommunications giant that grew out of the near-privatization of the old phone organization. The state still holds 51% of the shares, and they’re involved in providing services to end users, and building infrastructure like fibre – which makes it hard for other ISPs because there is no separation of concerns. Fibre infra should be in the hands of the state and end customer services can be privatized for all I care. But the current half assed setup seems to invite abuse…
https://blog.init7.net/de/die-glasfaserstreit-geschichte/
The reason I picked Init7 as my Internet Service Provider is that they keep fighting the good fight. On their blog is the story of how the went to court against Swisscom, the telecommunications giant that grew out of the near-privatization of the old phone organization. The state still holds 51% of the shares, and they’re involved in providing services to end users, and building infrastructure like fibre – which makes it hard for other ISPs because there is no separation of concerns. Fibre infra...